What groundbreaking event or trend happened in the year that you were born?

Question

1969 -- Men land on the moon. Woodstock is held in New York. "Midnight Cowboy" scores Best Picture Oscar, the first and only time an x-rated movie has won the honor.

Answer 1

Let's see... the Watergate scandal, the release of the movie "The Godfather", George Carlin arrested for obscenity, the FBI started hiring women, video games were born when Atari released the arcade version of Pong, Charlie Chaplin enjoyed a belated Oscar win... and most importantly David Bowie released The Rise and Fall of Ziggy Stardust and the Spiders from Mars. And I'm still mad at my mom for not seeing that tour while I was in the womb... at least I coulda said I was there.

Answer 2

1978: Jonestown, Guyana Massacre (Jim Jones) . . . Kool-Aid . . . the whole bit.

What is more interesting is that my father was born and raised in Guyana. My parents were in Guyana visiting shortly before I was born, and while they were down there, the former airline TWA went on strike. So happens that was the only way my parents could fly out and get home. They were there for like two months or something, and I was almost born there. Fortunately for me and my mom, I was late.

And fortunately for my family, the massacre didn't happen until four months after I was born. Not that anyone in my family would have been a part of that or would have drank the Kool-Aid (or whatever it actually was).

Answer 3

Strikes across Poland
Gang of four goes on trial
Libyan troops intervene in Chad Civil War
Iran-Iraq War breaks out
Leftists seize embassy in Colombia
Iran hostage crisis
US boycotts Moscow Summer Olympics
Mount St. Helens erupts
Who Shot JR?
Ronald Reagan elected as 40th US president, defeating Jimmy Carter
John Lennon assassinated by Mark Chapman
Soviet Union invades Afghanistan
Titanic wreckage found


PLUS I was born.... Yippee

Answer 4

1957
John Lennon and Paul McCartney meet for the
very first time, as teenagers, three years before forming the Beatles.

Sputnik program: The Soviet Union launches Sputnik I, the first artificial satellite to orbit the earth.

First flight of the Boeing 707 airliner

Dr. Seuss' The Cat in the Hat is published

Answer 5

Sid Vicious of the Sex Pistols died at the age of 22,Kramer vs.Kramer and Star Trek the Motion Picture hit big at the box office,Disco died,the Susan B. Anthony dollar was introduced... all in the Great Year Of 1979

Answer 6

de soto dies in the american wilderness
ok, i found something:

Jerome Friedman, Henry Kendall, Richard Taylor (US) discover protons and neutrons to be composed of even smaller particles called quarks.

The Beatles, Sergeant Pepper's Lonely Hearts Club Band

Thurgood Marshall sworn in as first black US Supreme Court justice (Oct. 2).

Dr. Christiaan N. Barnard and team of South African surgeons perform world's first successful human heart transplant (Dec. 3)

S GDP (1998 dollars): $833.6 billion
Federal spending: $157.46 billion
Federal debt: $340.4 billion
Median Household Income
(current dollars): $7,143
Consumer Price Index: 33.4
Unemployment: 3.8%
Cost of a first-class stamp: $0.05

Answer 7

11/14/1979 - Iran hostage crisis: US President Jimmy Carter issues Executive order 12170, freezing all Iranian assets in the United States in response to the hostage crisis

Answer 8

1991
U.S. and Allies at war with Iraq (Jan. 15). Warsaw Pact dissolves military alliance (Feb. 25). Cease-fire ends Persian Gulf War; UN forces are victorious (April 3). Europeans end sanctions on South Africa (April 15). Supreme Court limits death row appeals (April 16). Winnie Mandela sentenced in kidnapping (May 13). William H. Webster retires as director of CIA; Robert H. Gates succeeds him (May 14). France agrees to sign 1968 treaty banning spread of atomic weapons (June 3). Communist government of Albania resigns (June 4). Jiang Qing, widow of Mao, commits suicide (June 4). South African Parliament repeals apartheid laws (June 5). Warsaw Pact dissolved (July 1). Boris N. Yeltsin inaugurated as first freely elected president of Russian Republic (July 10). Bush-Gorbachev summit negotiates strategic arms reduction treaty (July 31). China accepts nuclear nonproliferation treaty (Aug. 10). Lithuania, Estonia, and Latvia win independence (Aug. 25); Bush recognizes them (Sept. 2). Haitian troops seize president in uprising (Sept. 30). U.S. suspends assistance to Haiti (Oct. 1). Professor Anita Hill accuses Judge Clarence Thomas of sexual harassment (Oct. 6); Senate, 52–48, confirms Thomas for Supreme Court after stormy hearings (Oct. 15). Israel and Soviet Union resume relations after 24 years (Oct. 18). U.S. indicts two Libyans in 1988 bombing of Pan Am Flight 103 over Lockerbie, Scotland (Nov. 15). Anglican envoy Terry Waite and U.S. Prof. Thomas M. Sutherland freed by Lebanese (Nov. 18). Last three U.S. hostages freed in Lebanon (Dec. 2–4). Soviet Union breaks up after President Gorbachev's resignation; constituent republics form Commonwealth of Independent States (Dec. 25).

Answer 9

ummm..not ground breaking
but ..November 2, 1755 Marie-Antoinette, Queen of France was born.

Answer 10

Swanson introduces beef, chicken, turkey pot pies. Hard to imagine there was life before this feast of gourmet treats.

Super glue was invented